Winter time or Shoulder

[740jsmayle]

I've been doing some scrounging. Yesterday I got some Cherry. Today I don't know and I need help with it .

 

[djones]

Poplar

 

[reddogrunner]

light weight, not as dense, dries quicker. Burns pretty good but very fast. One of the splits looked like Ash to me.

 

[mainewoods]

Looks like ash.

 

[blades]

first impression Ash

 

[Marshy]

My first guess was ash. My second guess was popular but I ruled that out mentally because it doesnt like to split down the grain like ash does, its usually so wet and spongie that it just soakes up any axe strike or is punky, never inbetween.

 

[740jsmayle]

20" rounds were a good workout for me and the fiskars. There is a couple I'll have to noodle because I couldn't split
The splits are fairly light. There is still 2 more loads to bring home

 

[blacklocst]

I don't know what it is, but it's not Ash.

 

[Cheesecutter]

A couple pieces seem to have box elder like red streaks, but .........

 

[gary s]

Reminds me of swamp willow, next to worthless.

 

[UpOnTheHill]

My vote is swamp willow too. I have cut and burned some. I wouldn't call it worthless but not what I want to heat with in this weather. Maybe when it starts getting warmer outside, shoulder season. I used to burn it a lot as campfire wood

 

[Rburg44]

Looks like poplar bark to me but normally the grain has a lil purple color in the core but splits easy as can be

 

[TreeTangler]

it most definitely is not ash. not familiar with the trees out your way but it looks to be something in the boxelder, soft maple, or poplar family.

 

[CTYank]

White ash. Might have been dead a while. Decent stuff.

 

[740jsmayle]

I don't think it is in the Willow family no drooping branches I was leaning toward Poplar too but it was tough splitting. The tree is green it is blow down from last summer . Could it be Elm ? I've never cut green Elm always been standing dead.
Thanks for the help I'm trying to decide which row to put it in.

 

[TreeTangler]

Not elm. Some boxelder/poplar can be a pain to split, especially green.

 

[hupte]

elm is really stringy when you spilt it. i'm thinking poplar. is the bark white up towards the top of the tree? that's the easiest way to tell.

 

[stihl sawing]

Reminds me of swamp willow, next to worthless.

Me too, and if it is that stuff will burn like toilet paper next year.

 

[jimbojango]

Could it be kaltalpa (major misspelling lol) or maybe china berry... the bark doesn't match but the inner part of the wood does. If its china berry burn it immediately or the bugs will eat it to dust over the summer.

 

[gary s]

I don't think it is in the Willow family no drooping branches I was leaning toward Poplar too but it was tough splitting. The tree is green it is blow down from last summer . Could it be Elm ? I've never cut green Elm always been standing dead.
Thanks for the help I'm trying to decide which row to put it in.

The Swamp Willows don't have the drooping branches like a weeping willow. After it dries it will be lighter in weight than Aspen.